76 t A LASTING TRADITION. .... t>.' -.... ..,. ,.... __' ....'ti<' . *" .' -- - - .... ...... " ...... ""'" ø .. II The quiet mark of achievement. '. -.. - Keyholder by Foster. Lifetime satisfaction guaranteed Available in finer stores. Suggested retail $17.50 to $850.00. FOSTER Foster, Ine. Union Street Auleboro, MA 02703 I APRIL 16,1984 placed on the ballot in November And this would be accomplished in a new spirit of candor, he said. "So far, we've set a record for the truth. We're doing it a new way." The Governor said that he was prepared to accept two hundred and fifty million dollars more in spending to restore aid to upstate cities and to the state-university sys- tem, and to reduce the number of lay- offs. Some of that money would also pay for more school aid than he wanted. He was also prepared to com- promise on his formula, he said, but he still hoped to "make progress" on re- distributing funds from wealthier to poorer school districts. To come up with the extra money, he said, the Legislature would probably find sixty million in new savings in his proposed expenditure budget, and add about a hundred million in revenues by saying that they were underestimated. (Actu- ally, Comptroller Regan had given the Legislature some leeway when he said that Cuomo's budget might have un- derestimated revenues by up to sev- enty-five million dollars.) As for the remaining ninety or so million dollars, Cuomo said he would ask the Legisla- ture to take it out of the funds for the state takeover of local Medicaid costs. ( Another option that the Governor found alluring was to add Fink's three- hundred-and-fifty-million-dollar pro- fessional-services tax to his own tax package, thus increasing revenues.) He also said he was not optimistic that funds for the Medicaid costs would be available beyond the next year. AI- thoug h the Speaker was less certain of this, Cuomo said that he and Fink were allied: only four hundred million dollars separated them- "and that's before we've negotiated." Cuomo went on, "Anderson is taking a good posi- don. He's for my budget except for education. They"-the Republican senators-"want to divide me from the Democrats. By staying with Cuomo, they would weaken the alliance be- tween me and Fink. It's too hard for them if Fink and I and Ohrenstein are allied." Although Cuomo acknowl- edged that appearances counted, he said that they counted less this year than they would next. "Nobody's run- ning this year," he said. II O N Sunday, March 13th, as the Cuomo administration prepared to enter a crucial week of the negotia- tions, Del Giudice told a visitor that he was optimistic about the prospects for the Governor's budget, but that "what will happen this week is that it